Everydayland

On the way out of St. Patrick subway station in Toronto.

I prefer the really big view -- type Z then click the representation of a frame at top right), but your preference may vary. I believe Édifice Dominion Public should should, by Canadian standards, read Édifice Dominion-Public , or, better yet, Édifice fédéral . The word "Dominion" is pretty much taboo in Canada now (as a vestige of colonial rule) except in the names of the beautiful Dominion Public Buildings that the federal government put up all over the country.

London, Ontario. Our first springlike day today, unusually early. It's been mild recently and the snow is gone.

I took this because it reminded me of Lionel LeMoine FitzGerald's backyard paintings: duckduckgo.com/?q=lionel+lemoine+fitzgerald+backyard+paintings&atb=v249-1&iar=images&iax=images&ia=images As you can see, neither the trees nor the colours match the paintings at the link. I usually misremember paintings, so no surprise. I also hadn't remembered that he spelt his last name with a capital G (like me!). But then maybe I've only ever seen it misspelt. Anyway, L. L. didn't get past elementary school, but, bored with the types of job he could get he taught himself drawing from Ruskin's Elements of Drawing and then took an evening art class. After getting married he worked day jobs and painted in his spare time. After 17 years he ended up as principal of Winnipeg School of Art. He was later briefly a member of the Group of Seven and a founding member of its successor, the Canadian Group of Painters. That probably means nothing to non-Canadians but we worship those people. They had a good international reputation in their day, too. So that's what led me to this parking lot. ====== Keith Burton mentions below that FitzGerald liked to draw his immediate surroundings, especially his backyard, and that's what most of us are doing these days. A good reminder that inspiration can be found in many places. ======= The PiP at upper left is a link to another homage to FitzGerald. ======= More tributes to painters and photographers: www.ipernity.com/doc/fitzgerald/album/1294982?with=45547580

London, Ontario, Canada. ====== I tried replacing this with a more level version, but it seems the Replace function is not working yet.

Park Square West, London (the original one, for a change), September 2016. You would have seen more of the fence if these two hadn't barged right in front of me, eh? But the photos I got without them parked in front of it were less interesting, so six of one, half a dozen of the other, as Einstein said in Kosmologische Betrachtungen zur allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie . To obtain a larger view you may type Z. Just a suggestion, eh? I'm not ordering you, like.

Another crop of an old photo to 16 X 9 format. The things you find to amuse yourself with during a pandemic. I like the bigger views. Type Z if a comparison interests you.

Looks better big, I swear. Type Z to see if I'm lying.

Somewhere in Toronto, nine years ago today. Spring is considerably further along this year.

This looks brightest in the full-screen version -- type Z, then click the frame to the right of the comment balloon. Please.

...before I was so rudely interrupted, happy Fence Friday! Even though it's Monday! Seriously, the two best photos I have to post at the moment are of fences, so here's the one I tried to upload Friday. I've put this in my Tributes album because I think it was inspired by Robert Adams's "Tract House, Westminster, Colorado": www.damianzimmermann.de/blog/wp-content/uploads/adams3.jpg